illustrations by warwick goble (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales, James, Grace; illustrations by Warwick Goble. Published by MacMillan and Co., London, 1979. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 231pp, with colour plates. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles, blue top edge, blue endpapers and reading ribbon. Contents are in fine, unmarked condition. Front board has three small indentations; jacket has rubbing to edges, crease to lower corner and closed tear. Reproduces the original 1923 edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Some chips to spine cloth including 10mm missing at tail of spine. Staining to rear board. Undated school prize label on front endpaper, Otakou District School. ; Uncommon. No date [c1899]. [32] pages. Advertisements on endpapers. Papered boards with colour illustration on front board. Cover title: "Charming Stories and Pretty Pictures". Advertisment for Steedman's Soothing Powders on rear board. Red cloth spine. Page dimensions: 222 x 179mm. Includes one illustration of three cats by Louis Wain. "There pussies are very frightened - they have just head a loud noise. But it was only a saucepan falling down in the kitchen, so they need not be alarmed.

With sixteen full-color tipped-in illustrations by Warwick Goble (illustratore). New edition. Octavo. 280, [2], [2, ads]. 8.5" x 5.75" JAPANESE FAIRY TALES IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF ILLUSTRATION This collection of 38 tales presents the classic folklore of Japanfrom Momotaro and Urashima to The Moon Maidenfiltered through the sensibilities of British-born, Tokyo-raised Grace James. James, daughter of a British Naval officer, recounts many of these tales from memory, "being relics of childish days, originally heard from the lips of a schoolfellow or a nurse." A landmark of Japonisme in children's literature, James bolsters these retellings with the source traditions of Kojiki alongside the full-color ethereal illustrations of golden-age illustrator Warwick Goble. While originally published in 1910, this 1912 "New Edition" includes 16 of Goble's plates and is handsomely bound in blue cloth, unusually well preserved in its scarce original dust jacket. Minor chipping frontis tissue guard, rubbed spots corners, minor pressing spine tips, slight lean, else near fine in spine-sunned, moderately soiled, very good or better dust jacket with chipping to edges and small tears rear panel, in mylar cover. Publisher's blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, all edges stained blue, in scarce dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION,DAMPSTAIN FIRST FEW BLANK PAGES,FRONT HINGE IS STARTING TO SEPARATE,COULD USE REPAIR,CONTENTS VERY NICE,ESPECIALLY THE ART OF WARWICK GOBLE.